Mark Plotkin

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534 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 9 Jul

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Okay, the day after the ceremony, I said to the shaman, tell me about what you saw.

Now, he spoke only Spanish in his indigenous language.

She didn't speak a word of Spanish, so there was no verbal communication.

He said it was really hard because I had to pull three girls out of her chest and make them go away because that was the problem.

Now, explain that to me scientifically because I can't do it.

But eventually, the child got back.

You know, I don't know.

That's really not my area.

I'm just accepting and listening.

So I have no interest in trying to become a correndero myself.

You know, or telling people I'm a shaman, which I'm not.

I never do.

I'm not even earthless, you know.

How deep do you want to go?

And sometimes you get a sense like that's their magic and they really don't want to fork over the recipe or anything anyhow.

So sometimes it's better to, you know, poke a little bit but not go too deep.

Well, let's go back to 1967.

There was a meeting in San Francisco called the Ethnopharmacologic Search for New Psychiatric Drugs.

And at this meeting were all the superstars of ethnobotany.

Gordon Wasson, the guy who did the seminal work on the mushrooms, Schulte, some other people of that level of achievement.

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